The prognosis was worse in patients with basic dementia or Alzheimers disease as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma. A new study has found a correlation between poor nutritional ...

Patients with COPD are at increased risk for infections, making avoidance and effective treatments key in management.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After using an antidepressant, the risk for pneumonia and COPD exacerbations went up. Discontinuing ...

Two posters presented at Virtual ISPOR 2021 analyzed the health care resource utilization and cost of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with pneumonia, as well as the cost ...

Bengali actor and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Joy Banerjee passed away on August 25 at a hospital in Kolkata.

Pneumococcal pneumonia is a potentially serious bacterial lung disease that can disrupt your life for weeks and even land you in the hospital. Medical experts want you to know that there are steps you ...

Political bluster about vaccines has arrived along with the season for getting vaccinated against diseases that can lead to deadly complications.

Pneumonia in both lungs is treatable, but it can be life-threatening in elderly patients like the 88-year-old pontiff. Pope Francis has double pneumonia, defined as a bacterial, viral, or fungal ...

The older the patient with pneumonia, the more likely resolution of radiographic infiltrates is to be delayed, especially if other comorbid illnesses are present. If both symptomatic and radiographic ...